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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 645530, member: 19463&quot;]Ancients are hard to grade.&nbsp; That is one of the best features about the hobby.&nbsp; The rule is there are only two grades:&nbsp; &quot;I like it&quot; and &quot;I don&#039;t like it.&quot;&nbsp; Auction results reveal how many people fall on either side of the question.&nbsp; If I collected US, I&#039;d like this coin.&nbsp; The &#039;problems fall in areas I could live without.&nbsp; Half the pits located on the face would make the coin less desirable.&nbsp; Even granularity over the whole surface would make the coin uglier to me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You modern collectors should be happy that most of the coins you seek were struck evenly with all the design on flan.&nbsp; If you want to play in a game where the best known example might be VG and ugly, let me introduce you to ancients.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, if all US coins were this interesting, I would collect them!&nbsp; It is a nice coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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